{"id":4384,"date":"2003-05-18T21:04:19","date_gmt":"2003-05-19T04:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=4384"},"modified":"2018-02-28T11:58:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T19:58:04","slug":"new-york-city-may-14-18-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2003\/05\/18\/new-york-city-may-14-18-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City, May 14 – 18, 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We had to sit on our flight on the ground in Chicago for a while, and the flight was bumpy, but we managed to get off the plane at LaGuardia. We discovered that LaGuardia isn't a food mecca at 9P at night – all that was open was a Wendy's. After eating, we cabbed into the city to our hotel, the Best Western President Hotel, unpacked and slept.<\/p>\n

We awoke Thursday to a bright day. We ate breakfast in the restaurant downstairs, got cleaned up and went out on the rode in a cab to Chelsea. We\u00c2\u00a0 saw a schipperke on the street!<\/p>\n

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We saw a schipperke in Chelsea - a female!<\/p><\/div>\n

We stopped in a few galleries there – the most notable was Bose Pacia<\/a>. The show there was from an Indian named Atul Dodiya which was really interesting.<\/p>\n

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A view from Bose Pacia Gallery<\/p><\/div>\n

We took another cab down to Soho. I got to experience the Apple Store while Aviva got some cash from an ATM and walked about a bit; I bought a small wooden spiral from a street vendor.<\/p>\n

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This is part of the packaging that came with the spiral<\/p><\/div>\n

We then had lunch at a Korean restaurant and saw a show at the Ise Art Foundation and then over to the Drawing Center for a show of drawings from the Tate Gallery collection. Yet another cab (we live dangerously) to J&R Music and Computer World downtown – it is huge, three floors (some four) covering a whole city block, with each major department having its own building and entrances on the block. We walked up to Chinatown on Bowery to the Asian American Arts Center – by that time, Aviva acted like a tired dog and refused to walk up the three flights of steps to see the gallery. So, we proceeded to walk around Chinatown to shop a little and then walked up Mulberry into Little Italy.<\/p>\n

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A welcome sign in Little Italy<\/p><\/div>\n

We ate dinner at Casa Bella<\/a>, which was okay – I broke my diet and had a side of Carbonara with my chicken main course, while Aviva had her favorite, pasta in a salmon sauce. We bought some tee shirts in Little Italy and then retired by cab to our hotel for the night.<\/p>\n

Our alarm didn't go off so we woke up at 7:30A on Friday, rushed to breakfast and through the shower. We decided to walk up 49th to 5th Avenue and then up to 57th Street.<\/p>\n

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Breaking down the Today Show outdoor concert on Friday - we just missed it! <\/p><\/div>\n

We stopped at Kinokuniya Bookstore at 10 W. 49th Street. The store specializes in Japanese books. I got a pamphlet by Edward Tufte, Visual and Statistical Thinking<\/span>, and a game of Shogi, Japanese chess, along with an introductory book on game play. While waiting for Aviva, I stopped next door in Franklin Covey<\/a> to check out their meeting tools and organizer software. We stopped at the Cathedral of St. Patrick and of course shopped in their store next door on 51st Street – we bought a CD of liturgical music played on their pipe organ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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A side door at St. Patrick<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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A statue of Atlas across from St. Patrick - did he shrug?<\/p><\/div>\n

We continued north and ended up eating at Cafe Classico at 35 W. 57th Street. The cafe is actually a kosher restaurant! Aviva had a tuna salad and I had two kababs of ground beef with a salad. It was simply wonderful! We walked over to Hacker-Strand Art Books<\/a> at 45 W. 57th and then Rizzoli Books on 57th. Aviva bought a book on Filippo Brunelleschi, who designed and had the large dome for the Duomo, the main cathedral in Firenze, built. We crossed 5th and went to a number of galleries. I really liked the show up at China 2000 Fine Art<\/a>. We stopped in three galleries in the Fuller Building, which claims to be the first steel structure in New York City:<\/p>\n